Racist States of Mind Understanding the Perversion of Curiosity and Concern

This book explores some of the unconscious mechanisms and processes that underpin the racist phenomenon by looking at racism as a state of mind, inferred from the clinical situation and racist situations in the external world.

A Note Regarding Pronouns -- Introduction -- The Psychic Geography of Racism -- Mythical homelands: body, psyche, and nation -- The racist scene and the primal scene -- Race in the Consulting Room -- Working clinically with racist states of mind -- The racist gaze: bearing witness -- Clinical and theoretical challenges -- Race in Group, Organisation, and Societal Life -- Psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies: institutional cleansing -- Race in the life of a study group -- Consulting to an organisation: race, food, sex, and aggression -- Reason and racism -- Thinking under fire: concluding thoughts

Professional Practice & Development

Keval, Narendra